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Blade, The (1995)

May 26, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by Eternality Tan

How to Divorce During the War (2026)

May 22, 2026May 22, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Useful Ghost, A (2025)

May 16, 2026May 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Citizen Kane (1941)

May 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 by Eternality Tan

April (2024)

April 27, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #22: Piotr Szulkin

April 26, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Accattone (1961)

April 20, 2026 by Eternality Tan

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Tag / Documentary

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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  • 2026, Documentary, UK
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A Sundance award-winning documentary that captures the power of civil resistance with gripping immediacy, as it chronicles the Kenmure Street protests in Glasgow, after two Sikh men were taken from their home into a police van that was prevented by the community from departing.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 11, 2026April 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Central Park (1989)

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  • 1989, Documentary, Frederick Wiseman, USA
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Wiseman’s observational mastery in this patient, humane, and richly textured work reveals a vision of community sustained through dialogue, care, and conflict, offering a quietly stirring reflection on what it means to nurture shared public spaces.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 2, 2026May 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

F for Fake (1973)

  • Criterion Collection, Welles, Orson
  • 1973, Documentary, Orson Welles, USA
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An editing masterclass that feels ahead of its time, this is Welles at his most playful and elusive—utterly fascinating if you surrender to his tricks, obvious or otherwise, as he slyly provokes with a thesis on fakery, expertise, illusion and truth.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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February 10, 2026February 19, 2026 by Eternality Tan

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 2022, Documentary, Laura Poitras, USA
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The fearless and admirable Laura Poitras weaves the traumatic personal history, artistic legacy, and near-fatal overdose of Nan Goldin into a formally inventive documentary that urgently reveals the power of transformative social justice.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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January 24, 2026May 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

2,000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)

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  • 2025, Documentary, Mstyslav Chernov, Ukraine
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Realism without filters, Chernov’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning ’20 Days in Mariupol’ is a devastating war vérité that strips conflict of rhetoric, leaving only attrition, absurdity, and the unbearable weight of patriotic labour carried by ordinary Ukrainian men.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 23, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Afternoons of Solitude (2024)

  • Serra, Albert
  • 2024, Albert Serra, Documentary, Spain
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Serra’s unflinching, observational documentary plants its camera with sniper-like focus on the bloody ritual of bullfighting, as static long takes and dynamic close-ups capture a lonely matador risking his life, afternoon after afternoon, to end another.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 18, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1984, Documentary, USA
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Despite its lack of style and the textbook-esque approach to conventional documentary filmmaking, this is quite rightly one of the finest of its kind—a galvanising and sensitive work on the LGBTQ legacy of Harvey Milk and his tragic assassination. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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May 25, 2025June 9, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Hollywoodgate (2023)

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  • 2023, Afghanistan, Documentary, Germany, USA
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Powerful, insightful, frightening and surprisingly amusing, this documentary gives us unprecedented access into the inner workings of the Taliban as they returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 27, 2025June 9, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Cameraperson (2016)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 2016, Documentary, USA
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A free-form experiment that sees the filmmaker putting together a feature out of decades of behind-the-scenes footage from around the world—its fragmented moments of joy, anger, trauma and empathy reveal a common humanity even as they refuse to mark time and its deconstruction. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 23, 2025June 4, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Agent of Happiness (2024)

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  • 2024, Bhutan, Documentary
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At times amusing and heartfelt, this gentle and comforting Sundance documentary sees local government agents tasked with surveying the Bhutanese on their ‘Happiness Index’.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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